Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An employee may use up to 10 days of sick leave on full pay (carer's leave) in each year to care for and support members of the employee's immediate family or household—
(a) when they are ill; or
(b) because an unexpected emergency arises.
Example for paragraph (b)—
unexpected failure of child care arrangements
(2) If the employee has exhausted his or her entitlement under subsection (1), the employee may take up to an additional 2 days unpaid carer's leave each time the employee needs to care for and support members of the employee's immediate family or household—
(a) when they are ill; or
(b) because an unexpected emergency arises.
(3) The employee may take additional unpaid carer's leave if the employer agrees.
(4) An employee can not take carer's leave if another person has taken leave to care for the same person unless there are special circumstances requiring more than 1 person to care for the person.
(5) Carer's leave may be taken for part of a day.
(6) In this section—
employee does not include casual employee.
sick leave includes sick leave accrued before the commencement of this section.